First Americans
Inuit
Inhabited present-day Alaska and northern Canada
Lived in Arctic areas (below freezing much of the year)
Dress warm:January temperatures sometimes drop to -40 degrees farenheit
The walrus, seal, and other fur-bearing sea mammals supply food and clothing. Caribou was hunted in the summer
Kwakiutl
Pacific Northwest coast
Rainy mild Climate
Fishing and Hunting(could catch enough fish during the summer to last the whole winter)
Plank houses
Potlach
Totem
Sioux
Interior of the US (Great Plains)
Dry grasslands
The plains area was hotter than 100degrees in the summer & could get to 40degrees below zero in the winter
Horses
Pueblo (Anasazi)
The pueblo were in the southwest
Present-day New Mexico & Arizona
Desert areas and areas bordering cliffs and mountains
Homes made out of adobe and sand http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/americanhistory/pueblo/
Iruquois
Northeast North America
Eastern Woodlands
Heavily Forested
Inuit
Inhabited present-day Alaska and northern Canada
Lived in Arctic areas (below freezing much of the year)
Dress warm:January temperatures sometimes drop to -40 degrees farenheit
The walrus, seal, and other fur-bearing sea mammals supply food and clothing. Caribou was hunted in the summer
Kwakiutl
Pacific Northwest coast
Rainy mild Climate
Fishing and Hunting(could catch enough fish during the summer to last the whole winter)
Plank houses
Potlach
Totem
Sioux
Interior of the US (Great Plains)
Dry grasslands
The plains area was hotter than 100degrees in the summer & could get to 40degrees below zero in the winter
Horses
Pueblo (Anasazi)
The pueblo were in the southwest
Present-day New Mexico & Arizona
Desert areas and areas bordering cliffs and mountains
Homes made out of adobe and sand
http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/americanhistory/pueblo/
Iruquois
Northeast North America
Eastern Woodlands
Heavily Forested
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/culture/immigration/zoom.weml